ivory tower
英 [ˌaɪvəri ˈtaʊə(r)]
美 [ˌaɪvəri ˈtaʊər]
n. 象牙塔(指逃避问题、脱离现实的小天地)
牛津词典
noun
- 象牙塔(指逃避问题、脱离现实的小天地)
a place or situation where you are separated from the problems and practical aspects of normal life and therefore do not have to worry about or understand them- academics living in ivory towers
生活在象牙塔中的学者
- academics living in ivory towers
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 象牙塔(指脱离实际生活的小天地)
If you describe someone as living in anivory tower, you mean that they have no knowledge or experience of the practical problems of everyday life.- They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
他们身处象牙塔中,并不真正了解毒品犯罪的危害有多大。 - ...ivory-tower intellectuals.
象牙塔中的知识分子
- They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
英英释义
noun
- a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place
- he lived in the ivory tower of speculation
- they viewed universities as ivory towers
双语例句
- He saw he should no longer shut himself up in his ivory tower.
他认识到不应再把自己关在象牙塔里。 - The professor lived in an ivory tower.
这个教授生活在象牙塔中。 - Art has been regarded as the ivory tower, some bubble isolated from life, or some hyperplasia of a developed civilization.
艺术被看作象牙之塔,某种孤立于生活的气泡,或者一个发达了的文明的增生症。 - Living in your ivory tower at oxford, you can't imagine what it's like to go hungry.
你生活在牛津的象牙之塔中,想像不到挨饿是什么滋味。 - I approve of business schools carrying out research, but it should be practical, not ivory tower.
我赞成商学院搞研究,但必须注重实践,而不是躲在象牙塔里。 - The professor be shut up in the ivory tower all the time.
教授整天在象牙塔里呆着。 - We need to recognize that development knowledge is no longer the sole province of the researcher, the scholar, or the ivory tower.
我们需要承认,发展知识不再是研究者、学者或象牙塔的唯一领地。 - So in many respects, JSF2 combines the best aspects of ivory tower and real world.
因此,JSF2在许多方面都结合了象牙塔和真实世界的长处。 - With the development of our society, the campus no longer is an "Ivory Tower".
随着社会的进步,大学校园不再是一个象牙塔。 - Last summer I got out of the ivory tower and entered the real world.
去年夏天我走出象牙塔,真实的世界。